This Make-Up Artist Turned Herself Into A Painting In This Perfect Optical Illusion

French makeup artist Kenza, 22, posted a series of photos on her Twitter account that swiftly went viral, earning 11,000 retweets.

Kenza has been completing a makeup course, and shared her final work online. She chose optical illusion as the theme for her assignment, the pictures above show her using makeup to transform her model into a figure in a painting. Her work was inspired by artist Alexa Meade, who uses similar techniques, seen here:

Imitating life on top of life

A post shared by Alexa Meade (@alexameadeart) on Jun 9, 2017 at 12:17pm PDT

Kenza certainly achieved her illusion, with many comments on Twitter saying it took them a while to realise that the pictures were photos of a real woman with paint on her body.

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See more of Kenza’s work on her Instagram here.

Akita was granted permission to use images by Kenza.

(H/T TrendHunter)